Editor’s Note: The following report from the United Nations’ 1st Session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, held from December 5-9, 2022 in Geneva, Switzerland, was prepared by Efia Nwangaza, former member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s Atlanta Project, leader of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement and its community radio station WMXP in Greenville, SC and founding member of the Black is Back Coalition for Peace, Social Justice and Reparations.
Uhuru! My name is Brittany. I’m with Anakbayan D.C., which is a grassroots Filipino youth organization that fights for human rights and democracy in the Philippines.
WASHINGTON, DC–On an unusually warm November day, Africans from all over the U.S. gathered at Malcolm X Park to rally and march to the White House demanding, “Hands Off Uhuru! Hands Off Africa!” for the annual Black is Back Coalition’s (BIBC) Black People’s March on the White House.
The following is an excerpt from Chairman Omali Yeshitela's speech at the rally at Lafayette Park on November 5, 2022, as part of the 14th annual Black is Back Coalition March on the White House.
